My adopted brother from another mother and father, the American Heathen® RJ Evans, is fond of saying that the hypocrisy always reveals the lie. He probably should have that statement trademarked. For almost four years (as of this column’s posting), we’ve been living in nothing but hypocrisy and lies. A country run under the dictates of a malignant narcissist and enabled by a corrupt party of psychopaths and sociopaths that spent the previous eight years screaming to high heaven of actions that they are now grossly guilty of doing in spades.
And it’s not just this gang of corrupt tyrants, but a whole segment of America that have supported and rooted for these folks that are equally guilty of engaging in hypocrisy and lies. Following the advice of a certain Austrian-born dictator from the 1930’s and 40’s, they seem to think that if enough people believe the lies that they suddenly become truths. It actually doesn’t work like that. Truth is not subject to popularity. Think of all the people that used to believe that the sun and the rest of the universe revolved around a flat Earth. Belief in a lie does not make it a truth, even if everyone believes in it.
So maybe it’s time that we start pointing out some of these hypocrisies that people have taken up.
Now let’s get brutally honest here... I’m not expecting the great unwashed to suddenly develop a conscience because of a little ol’ online columnist like yours truly held up a mirror to these Januses. But maybe some of you who read this column can pass it along and maybe show the others that we’re not alone in seeing these double-standards go unchallenged.
So let’s begin...
It’s damned hypocritical... to see an orange-skinned narcissist spend years complaining about how a president plays golf and then turns around and plays even more golf when he’s president.
It’s damned hypocritical... to see an orange-skinned narcissist dictate from Twitter how a president should take responsibility for pandemics while in office and then proudly proclaim with cameras rolling “No, I don’t take responsibility at all” when a pandemic happens under his watch.
It’s damned hypocritical... for a political party to complain about budget deficits, but only when they’re not in power and only when it involves spending that they don’t support.
It’s damned hypocritical... for a political party to impeach a sitting president from a different party for lying under oath about getting oral sex but then turn around and defend a sitting president from their own party for crimes much worse than that.
It’s damned hypocritical... to complain about the use of presidential executive orders when the White House cannot work with Congress, but then approve of its wanton use when “your guy” is in the White House.
It’s damned hypocritical... for middle-class parents to tell single mothers that they shouldn’t have kids that they cannot afford to raise without government assistance, and then turn around and demand that schools open up in the middle of a pandemic, risking children and adults alike, because they cannot afford to educate their precious little tax deductions on their own or keep them home for virtual education.
It’s damned hypocritical... to condemn “mail-in voting”, but then tell others to file “absentee ballots”, when those are essentially the same thing and use the same delivery mechanism. And it’s even more damnably hypocritical when you’ve been doing just that over the past few years.
It’s damned hypocritical... to complain about “voter fraud” when it seems that the only traceable instances of fraud are being done by supporters of your own political party.
It’s damned hypocritical... to money-shame people for buying things like Starbucks coffees and avocado toast and big screen TVs and then turn around and demand that people do just that to keep the economy going.
It’s damned hypocritical... to complain about a so-called “cancel culture” after supporting every effort to keep people like Colin Kaepernick from working because he started a form of peaceful protest that harmed nobody and only threatened the sensibilities of egomaniacs like a certain orange-skinned narcissist.
And finally...
It’s damned hypocritical... for an orange-skinned narcissist to molest and dry-hump the American flag while acting and talking like a third-world dictator. And it’s even more damnably hypocritical for his supporters to see what he’s done and approve of what he’s done and still claim to be “proud Americans”.
I’m sure there are a lot more to point out, and maybe some of my readers will help me with that. I can only hope that at some point there will come a time when all of these Januses will be held to account for their double-standards, and not just in some concept of a hereafter that we will never see carried out.
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